Judge Rules that American Express Violated Antitrust Laws
A federal judge ruled in a court in Brooklyn, NY that American Express violated antitrust laws by banning merchants use of other cards and charging higher merchant fees than Visa or Discover.
Seven states brought lawsuits against American Express to a federal court in October 2010, … [Read more...]

Major Antitrust Class Action Against Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe Reaches Settlement
In 2010, the United States Department of Justice revealed that four major players in Silicon Valley – Apple Inc, Google, Intel, and Adobe – all had secret deals not to hire each other’s engineers, or “prevent poaching,” which the employees viewed as employment … [Read more...]

Apple Wins $1 Billion Antitrust Lawsuit Over iTunes and iPods
After just a week at trial, the 10-year-old antitrust lawsuit claiming Apple intentionally bricked iPods that did not exclusively use iTunes went to deliberation, and the technology company won.
On December 16th, the California jury found that Apple did not violate antitrust laws by … [Read more...]

After a Decade, Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple’s iPod and iTunes Underway
An antitrust lawsuit against Apple for its iTunes and iPod policies is finally underway in Oakland, California.
Court documents related to the antitrust lawsuit accuse Apple of creating a monopoly between 2006 and 2009, because iPods would only play songs purchased … [Read more...]

Discover Card Accuses Visa of Illegal Antitrust Activity, Files Antitrust Lawsuit
On Tuesday, November 25th, Discover filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the company is intentionally aggressive in order to maintain a monopoly over the credit card market.
“In order to maintain its monopoly, Visa has undertaken a series of … [Read more...]

NCAA Files Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs from Compensation Antitrust Lawsuits
The NCAA announced on Thursday, September 4th, that the college football league had filed a motion in a district court in Northern California to dismiss two antitrust lawsuits that were filed in March.
One of the antitrust lawsuits includes four former college football … [Read more...]

Apple Settles Antitrust Lawsuit Alleging E-Book Price Gauging
Apple Inc. has agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit with class-action plaintiffs who claimed the computer giant overcharged e-cook customers by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The settlement offer has not been publicized, and could still be voted down by the class-action … [Read more...]

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